Bench Scale Dual Column Gas Separation and Capture Educational Pilot Plant

Introduction

The Dual-Column Gas Separation and Gas Capture Educational Unit Operations Pilot Plant is an integrated, bench-scale laboratory system designed for university-level engineering education. It provides students with practical, hands-on experience in gas adsorption, separation, and capture processes. Equipped with two process towers, the plant is capable of handling dual-gas mixtures such as carbon dioxide/nitrogen and ethylene/ethane, making it an ideal platform for teaching the principles of gas purification, environmental engineering, and petrochemical separations.

Customization Capabilities

To meet the specific requirements of different academic curricula and space constraints, this educational pilot plant offers extensive customization options. Both the hardware components—such as column dimensions, adsorbent capacities, piping configurations, and sensor ranges—and the software control interfaces can be modified to align with your university's specific teaching objectives, laboratory designs, or regional engineering standards.

Key Features and Educational Benefits

• Realistic Process Simulation: Replicates industrial gas separation and pressure/temperature swing adsorption processes, allowing students to bridge the gap between theoretical calculations and real-world operations.
• Adsorbent Activation and Regeneration: Features a high-temperature purging system (up to 400°C) and integrated vacuum pumping, allowing students to study the lifecycle, thermal regeneration, and activation of various industrial adsorbents.
• Comprehensive Instrumentation: Outfitted with multi-range flow meters, precise pressure transmitters, and temperature sensors that provide accurate data for mass balance calculations and process analysis.
• Modern Control Interface: Includes an integrated 15.6-inch touchscreen control terminal with 4G/5G wireless capability, enabling real-time data acquisition, parameter adjustment, and remote monitoring.
• Industrial Safety Standards: Built on a durable, mobile aluminum alloy frame with lockable casters, featuring integrated safety relief systems, overheat protection, and emergency shut-offs suitable for student laboratory environments.

Detail & Parts

Technical Specifications and Experimental Modules

Curriculum Integration and Academic Alignment

This pilot plant is designed to align with core chemical, environmental, and process engineering curricula. By working with this system, students can directly observe and analyze the thermodynamic and kinetic behaviors described in standard engineering textbooks.

• Mass Transfer and Separation Principles: The system allows direct evaluation of gas adsorption mechanisms and breakthrough curves, which are core topics in Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering. Students can calculate mass transfer coefficients and study the effect of gas velocity and concentration on the adsorption bed.
• Transport Phenomena: In alignment with Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles, the dual-column system provides a practical platform to study molecular diffusion in porous media, fluid flow through packed beds, and heat transfer during the exothermic adsorption and endothermic desorption cycles.
• Process and Plant Design: The layout of the pilot plant, featuring distinct piping, instrumentation, and control loops, serves as a physical reference for students studying Chemical Engineering Design. It helps them understand Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), safety interlock designs, and the scaling of benchtop data to pilot-scale systems.

Both the hardware layout and the software dashboards can be customized to match the unique pedagogical structure of your department, ensuring that laboratory exercises directly support your lecture topics.

About LABPARK

LABPARK has been dedicated to serving the global higher education sector for over 20 years, focusing on the design and manufacture of advanced laboratory equipment across six major fields: chemistry, chemical engineering, biotechnology, food engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, and environmental engineering.

With a commitment to engineering excellence and academic utility, the company holds 209 technical patents and operates from a spacious 49,000-square-meter R&D and manufacturing base. To date, LABPARK has successfully partnered with more than 289 universities and colleges worldwide, delivering robust, curriculum-aligned educational solutions that prepare the next generation of engineers for professional success.

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